Study steps inside Canada’s Netflix-watching households

Forty percent of Canadian households with children have subscriptions to Netflix, as outlined in a new study of the English-language Canadian market by Media Technology Monitor (MTM), which offers deep demographic data on how the OTT VOD service is being used.

Forty percent of Canadian households with children have subscriptions to Netflix, as outlined in a new study of the English-language Canadian market by Media Technology Monitor (MTM), which offers deep demographic data on who is watching Netflix and how they are using the OTT VOD service.

The study has found that 29% of Anglophones are subscribed to Netflix, with roughly two in five of those under 49 years old holding subscriptions. MTM reports that 82% of subscribers watch something on Netflix in a typical week.

Netflix subscribers are more likely to be higher income individuals, with just 17% of Netflix subscribers coming from households making less than US$35,000.

Netflix over-indexes in Western Canada, with 41% of people in Calgary and 37% of Anglophones in Edmonton having the service, besting the national average of 29%. The report said 25% of Anglophones in Ontario and Quebec use the service, and 30% subscribe to Netflix in B.C. and the Atlantic provinces.

Despite being available on smartphones, tablets and laptops, most Netflix users still access the service on TV, with 82% of Netflix viewers using TVs and just 18% using smartphones.

Surprisingly, two-thirds (66%) of the content watched on Netflix is television content, as opposed to films.

This is up from spring 2013 when the share of time spent watching TV content sat just below 50%, likely a result of prominent media exposure for Netflix’s original series.

Netflix subscribers are equally as likely to subscribe to TV services as the typical Anglophone, and just slightly more likely to watch premium TV services like TMN or HBO.